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Russian officials on Tuesday accused the United States of kidnapping the 30-year-old son of a Moscow lawmaker after detaining him in the Maldives and flying him to Guam to face charges of trafficking in stolen credit card information. Russian officials and news media denounced the handling of Roman Seleznev's arrest by the U.S. Secret Service as an illegal act of "extraordinary rendition," and the detainee's father speculated that Washington seized his son on bogus charges to have someone to trade for Edward Snowden. Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor, is wanted by the U.S. on charges of leaking millions of classified files. "We...

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Russian officials on Tuesday accused the United States of kidnapping the 30-year-old son of a Moscow lawmaker after detaining him in the Maldives and flying him to Guam to face charges of trafficking in stolen credit card information.
Russian officials...

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MOSCOW -- As an Aeroflot plane filled with journalists made its way to Cuba with or without fugitive Edward Snowden on board, Russian officials continued to keep silent about his whereabouts and experts dwelled on possible scenarios of what has become a...

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"How could they treat him so badly?" one audience member asked.
"An injustice," said another.
"What can people do with...

MOSCOW -- Russia will work to bring convicted arms smuggler Viktor Bout back home, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday, strongly implying that his country disagrees with the verdict handed to Bout on Thursday by a U.S. federal court in New York. Lavrov

Arms merchant Viktor Bout, who was sentenced last week to 25 years in prison by a U.S. judge, appealed Thursday to the Russian government to take his case to the International Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to help him get back to Russia.

REPORTING FROM NEW YORK -- A federal court judge sentenced convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout to 25 years in prison Thursday, but in a swipe at prosecutors said there was no convincing evidence that he would have committed the crimes alleged if he had not been

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